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There were alot of great comments on my post awhile ago: your resume is meaningless (and building career security, not job security). Please take a moment to read it if you haven’t, as I want to build upon what I wrote there.
I think this issue is relevant again because of the state of the economy. I get the sense that some people are fearing for their jobs. Stepping back and looking at the bigger picture you should never live a single day of your life with any fear - there is no reason for it. It’s simply not a productive use of life. Not if you want to be remarkable and reach your full potential. Continue reading...
You’ll notice at the bottom of this blog (and many others) a little icon that looks something like this:
This signifies that the work is published under a creative commons license. Click the button and you’ll be taken to the license page - which explains:
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, educators and all content producers easily mark their creative works with the freedoms they want it to carry. Everyone can use Creative Commons to change their copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.” Continue reading...
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I have a theory. I believe that the ability to make art, whether music, drawing, painting, sculpting - it doesn’t matter what kind - is an inherently human trait.
Anyone who makes the statement “I am not creative” is wrong. Translated, it really means “I never tried”.
I’ve been told I am lucky to have the ability to make music. It’s really not luck at all, I am no more skilled in writing it than you can be. The difference is, I have put forth arduous hours, days, weeks, months and years of my life into it.
We are hard-wired for creativity. It is just a matter of honing it to a specific craft. And, it is perhaps one of the most rewarding feelings you can have — giving life to something original from within yourself to share with the world purely for intrinsic value.
Not convinced you should be an artist yet? Here’s 21 more reasons to consider it: Continue reading...
Agencies or people that offer SEO services, yet have a site that scores poorly in free SEO tools like Website Grader and have dismal traffic rank in Alexa.
Web professionals who you Google and find they don’t have their own blog and a large digital footprint.
Marketing companies or individuals that do blog, but don’t inspire traffic, links or comments on their site.
Are you weary of these things? I certainly am.
What chance does a company or person that can’t deliver real results for themselves have of delivering real results for you? Continue reading...
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I’ve been traveling this past week - and Thursday morning as I stepped out of my hotel room for a series of meetings, I noticed a usual sight: a copy of USA Today sitting at the steps of my door.
And, my usual response was to pull it inside my room and set it aside where it remained unopened and unread. Perhaps a better idea would be to bring it downstairs and ask them kindly to save the energy and paper and not deliver my news in this arcane format.
As I have said before, the whole idea of someone bringing you news as words printed on paper with ink in the digital age is a quaint and archaic notion. It is wasteful, harmful to the environment and pretty much irrelevant.
I enjoyed my breakfast while reading RSS feeds through my iPhone - where I am receiving exactly the information I want without ads that are of no meaning to me and without articles that don’t pertain to my world or industry. There is only a fleeting amount of time daily, there is no reason to waste time reading something that was designed for a previous era. The one-size-fits-all, shotgun approach is over. Let the age of customization begin. Continue reading...